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by impaintedman

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I have recently recieved two pc's to repair one of which is worth repairing the problem is that one is a gateway the other is a compaq the gateway is the "good one" the person that brought me these had a problem that the hard drive wasnt working so he formatted it and then couldnt get it to work again so he swapped the drives from both pc's and really got things screwy now I am unable to get it to bootup even with a startup disk and am no longer able to get to bios to set the paramaters for thedrive that belongs to it he had also let his child pull the cmos battery out and in the process broke the clip that holds it in any ideas? maybe it is time for a new pc?

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by opatzg9

New machine not necessarily, could just replace the motherboard, cpu?, ram?, or fix the clip(but I don't see anything good there with the clip, a good bounce and gee its' not working again). If it's at least an atx case you can get a pretty nice upgrade for under $200.

by thechas

The big concern here is that the motherboard and drives may have sustained ESD (static) damage.

The sound of the problem, (continually getting worse) is what causes me to suspect ESD.

So yes, it is time for some form of NEW PC.
Be it a new motherboard (always a problem with either brand)
Bare bones PC
or New system

Best Wishes,

Chas

by @lberto

I think it is not worth the time that you'll have to invest in order to make them work. Get new mainboard and probably use their memory, processor, floppy, cd rom.
Now days I think is not worth it the time to make old computers come back to live, Imean old computers for home users.
Probably if you go to e-bay you can get a good deal out of it.
;)
Good luck,
@lberto

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